then a sound card can help significantly. External DACs have also blown up over the last couple of years, with companies like Schiit making a range of high-end DAC/headphone amplifier combos.

Our Sound BlasterX G6 review takes a look at a hi-res gaming DAC and USB sound card which will amp up your gaming audio. As far as design goes, the Sound BlasterX G6 is pretty similar to the G5.

Heading up the range is the flagship AE-9, but our focus today is the Sound Blaster AE-7 - a sleek upgrade card with performance that could rival external amp + DAC bundles. By using high-end ...

but the weak link is the "good enough" headphone amp built into the receiver or computer sound card. Dedicated headphone amps, like the Burson Audio HA-160 take the high road and are built like ...

tube amplifier, when it comes to PC audio, I'm not one of those people—I don't have the ear or the patience for audiophile perfection. And yet the Creative Sound Blaster AE-9 sound card is the ...

Built in headphone pre-amp with software settable gain allowing ... is really something ASUS are proud of and not just another sound card, maybe even a concept product of sorts.

The Creative Sound Blaster X7 offers a ridiculous number of features for the money and sound quality is generally very good, but its appeal is limited. Ty Pendlebury has worked at CNET since 2006.

Creative Labs claims it’s the first sound card with an integrated RGB lighting ... the Sound BlasterX AE-5 as a high-quality headphone amp, the setup panel is the only one you should be ...

which have been a popular choice with many sound cards we have seen. Lastly, of immediate interest is the headphone amp which can support headsets ranging all the way up to 150ohms. Overall ...

The digital to analog converter, or DAC for short, which converts the computer's audio data into an analog signal for being sent to a sound system (such as speakers or an amplifier). A microphone ...

The first sound card to output PCM audio — the kind you ... but there was a sense amplifier on one of the data lines. By probing this sense amplifier while running through the address space ...